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Duke University Job Description: |
Job Title: ASSIST VP, INTL DEVELOPMENT & ENGAGEMENT |
Job Code: 1843 |
FLSA: E |
Job Level: 98 |
Revised Date: 07/01/2025 |
Job Family: JF 34 |
The Assistant Vice President for International Development & Engagement (the "Managing Director") will lead a comprehensive international strategy to engage alumni, parents and friends of Duke across all four dimensions of engagement, including philanthropy, experiential, volunteer, and communications. Collaborate closely with the leadership of other fundraising and engagement teams within Alumni Engagement & Development (AED), Duke's 10 schools, and academic/non-academic units across campus to lead a strategic and successful international fundraising and engagement program. Develop and implement the vision for the International Development and Engagement department and will have executive oversight for all aspects of the department. The Managing Director will report to the Associate Vice President for Individual Giving and serves as a member of his leadership team.
Fundraising
Solicit, cultivate and secure major and leadership gifts for all schools and units at Duke University, with an emphasis on gifts of $250,000+. Develop and maintain a portfolio of select major and leadership gift prospects and maintain active efforts to evaluate prospects identified through fieldwork, screening and research.
Lead and execute strategies for cultivation and solicitation of single and multi-interest international donors.
Travel with the president, provost, deans and interdisciplinary initiative directors to cultivate and solicit prospects or attend fundraising events; involve top University academicians, leaders and volunteers in international fundraising efforts.
Identify new international major gift prospects for all University areas and develop strategies for engagement and solicitation, including appropriate referrals to and/or joint work with colleagues in the schools and units.
Maintain active communication with development officers throughout the University to inform them of travel and potential prospect visits, to coordinate prospect activity and to "make and take" referrals.
Provide assistance to major gift prospects assigned to other university development staff as requested and serve as a resource for development colleagues across the University. Help foster University-wide major gift fundraising collaboration.
Significant international travel to meet with prospects and volunteers.
Engagement
Lead efforts to develop alumni communities in countries and international cities identified as global priorities by the University.
Coordinate with all areas of the University working outside the United States to maximize the impact of international engagement activities and initiatives with alumni, parents, and friends of Duke.
Partner with colleagues, including those in Constituent Engagement, to develop and advance the strategic vision for an elevated and differentiated international volunteer experience; help to engage international constituents to be a part of university programs and initiatives including volunteer alumni boards and associated strategic programming.
Working with AED and school/unit colleagues, lead efforts to pilot engagement projects, optimize existing programs, and drive synergies across new and existing initiatives to best meet engagement goals.
Help to define the vision for international volunteer boards and other volunteer experiences, partnering with colleagues in Individual Giving and Constituent Engagement to set metrics and benchmarks, and to optimize or update an initiative if benchmarks are consistently missed.
Ensure that volunteer, experiential and communications-based engagement opportunities are integrated into the departments and the universitys international fundraising work and that they serve in furtherance of fundraising goals.
Identify volunteers and encourage their placement on school, unit, or regional boards as well as other volunteer opportunities across AED and the University; ensure other members of the International Development & Engagement team are doing the same.
Strategic Leadership Across Alumni Engagement & Development
Serve as a senior member of Alumni Engagement and Development, collaborating on overall development and engagement strategies for Duke.
Focus on developing and implementing the fundraising and engagement strategies and tactics in the AED Strategic Plan.
Serve on the leadership team of Associate Vice President of Individual Giving.
Collaborate particularly closely with members of the Constituent Engagement team within AED. Ensure all engagement strategy development, implementation and analysis is aligned with Constituent Engagement.
Meet regularly with the Assistant Vice President for Global Alumni Engagement.
Assist administrators and faculty in the identification and prioritization of institutional and departmental funding needs that will be of interest in International alumni, parents and friends; stay abreast of institutional priorities, programs, and events that advance our development and engagement efforts.
Help to shape AED programs and messaging by providing perspective of international constituencies.
Departmental Leadership and Management
Lead a regionally-based international major gifts and engagement program. The fundraising activity of the program is focused on gifts of $250,000+ and is responsible for the solicitation, cultivation, and stewardship of gifts for priorities across Duke University. The engagement activity should be closely aligned with Constituent Engagement strategy and includes engagement across volunteering, experiential, communication and philanthropic dimensions.
Ensure activity across volunteering, experiential and communication dimensions is closely aligned with international fundraising strategies, both programmatically and with regard to specific prospects.
Lead the International Development & Engagement team to develop a vision and operating plan, while continuously evaluating how to move the team forward optimally, ensuring consistent and supportive management across the entire team; encourage and incentivize excellence, innovation, and high performance.
Maximize the effectiveness of the team and promote its collaboration and coordination within AED and among the schools and other units on campus; maintain close contact with the associate deans of development and school-based engagement colleagues to ensure the team understands fundraising and engagement priorities in the schools and units.
Develop and facilitate strategies to ensure the success of the fundraising and engagement goals of the Made for This campaign.
Coordinate with the leadership of the Duke Annual Fund and Gift Planning on a comprehensive reunion fundraising program.
Refine, track and analyze metrics for the team as a whole and each member of the team individually. Working with colleagues in AED Business Intelligence, monitor International Development & Engagement team and individual performance and ensure accurate performance reporting.
Determine fiscal requirements of the team and prepare budgetary recommendations; ensure expenditures are monitored, verified, and reconciled.
Direct various personnel functions including, but not limited to, hiring, performance appraisals, promotions, transfers, and vacation schedules.
Prepare operating plans as part of AED operating and strategic planning.
Standard Management Duties
Representative Duties - Appropriately represent Duke University as "employer" to direct reports and direct reports as "employees" to Duke University. Programmatic Duties - Ensure alignment of given programmatic, departmental, and/or organization-wide activities with AED strategic goals, priorities, and expectations.
Financial Duties - Exercise fiduciary responsibility for given individual, programmatic, departmental, and/or organization-wide activities in accordance with Dukes financial policies, procedures, and standards, and AED expectations.
Personnel Duties: Supervise direct reports in accordance with Dukes human resource policies, procedures, and standards, and AED expectations.
Personnel Duties: Hire & Onboard new employees (and offboard separating employees) in accordance with programmatic, departmental, and organization-wide priorities, Dukes human resource policies, procedures, and standards, and AED expectations.
| Education/Training: | Work requires communication, analytical, and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program. Advance degree preferred. |
| Experience: | Work requires ten years experience in fund raising, alumni engagement, public relations, marketing, student activities or a related field in order to acquire skills necessary to plan, administer and coordinate ongoing relationships. Work also requires experience in an international environment and a demonstrated ability to work cross culturally. OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE |
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